ear-piercin

Updated: May 10, 2025

A big crowd wuz gathered round him of human bein's in all strange costumes, and camels and their drivers, and dromedaries, and donkeys, and everything else under the sun. But this man stood calm under the sights and ear-piercin' yells and jabbers. And in some way, I d'no how, nor Josiah don't, he wuz a-holdin' another Japan or Turkey anyway, one of them foreign men suspended right up in the air.

Marietta Holley - Samantha at the World's Fair